Sublime

The famed champion of legal and social reform Clarence Darrow once said, “The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” The Self has the courage to do both.

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.

He sought to help his patients find a way to make their lives meaningful even in the face of depression or mental illness.

I define dependency as the inability to experience wholeness or to function adequately without the certainty that one is being actively cared for by another.

Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning.

Adlerian psychology is not a “psychology of possession” but a “psychology of use.”

Man’s search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a “secondary rationalization” of instinctual drives. This meaning is unique and specific in that it must and can be fulfilled by him alone; only then does it achieve a significance which will satisfy his own will to meaning.

The healing of the spirit has not been completed until openness to challenge becomes a way of life.